Defeat in a thriller

Defeat for the city of Vienna in allotment garden case

At the turn of the year, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal by the City of Vienna in the case. It concerns an allotment garden on the Old Danube.(Bild: Gerhard Bartel)

The Supreme Court (OGH) has ruled in favor of a student who wanted to buy her grandmother's allotment garden. The town hall must now offer the piece of land at a bargain price.

David versus Goliath in court - in the legal dispute over a dreamlike patch of green on the Old Danube in the big city, the "little" plaintiff is likely to have won this time: As the "Krone" reported, a Viennese student has now been fighting for three years to buy an allotment plot that her grandmother once leased.